Thanks for coming! We’ll see you at casitconf’14, 7-8 MAR, 2014!

Cascadia IT Conference 2013

A gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in the U.S. Pacific Northwest / British Columbia to learn, share ideas, and network. We go by many titles but everyone is invited: System administrators, network administrators, network engineers, Windows, Linux, Unix, DBAs, etc. The conference includes panels, presentations, invited speakers and keynotes, as well as training by top-notch experts. We expect attendance of 100-150 IT professionals from businesses and academic institutions from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia.

Keynote Speaker

Tales from the Bottom of the Wishing Well, or Why SysAdmins Still Matter – By David N. Blank-Edelman

Director of Technology,Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

Keynote Speaker

Welcome to 2013. We don’t have jetpacks, robot butlers, teleportation or lots of stuff we were promised but we do have clouds, autonomous computing, and other wondrous things. With all of these things comes a familiar siren song “we are just around the corner from a place where we won’t need people to run or maintain all of this great technology… it will just run itself… we won’t need you”.

I’m here to tell you that sysadmins still matter. Come hear why a sysadmin,
with our without a jetpack, is still our best hope.